ARMED HOLD-UP IN MELBOURNE
BOOKMAKER ROBBED (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Aug. 27. Four masked and armed men to-day held up a coursing bookmaker, Frederick George Wilson, and his wife, at their home in the suburb of Ascot Vale and stole money, furs, and jewellery valued at £2OOO. Two men with pistols covered Mr Wilson and two others, one with a gun and the other with an iron bar, menaced his wife. The robbers tore a telenhone from the wall and threatened to shoot the couple if they called for help. In leaving they let down the tyres of the Wilsons’. two cars.
Within minutes of Mr Wilson giving the alarm from a neighbour’s house, a large team of detectives and wireless patrol crews raided several houses and took In suspects for questioning.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26511, 28 August 1951, Page 6
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